In one breath, let us look together.

Echad (אֶחָד · one) is a Hebrew-rooted Bible meditation tool for Korean and English speakers, and for families and house churches. Each week one portion of the Torah becomes the app's heartbeat, and when you touch a single word the Hebrew dictionary opens gently beside it.

It is not many features. We promise four things only — oneness, rhythm, care, community.

We begin the alpha with 24 house churches in July 2026, and open the beta more widely in November. The full launch is in the first quarter of 2027. To be among the first, subscribe to the Echad Letter — we announce the alpha and the beta there first.

A Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה · parashah) is the Jewish rhythm of reading the whole Torah in 54 weekly portions — one portion a week, the five books of the Torah together in a year. A family that began in the first week and someone who joined in week 27 can sit before the same passage together, and that is the most beautiful part of it.

Of course. Echad was made for anyone among Korean and English speakers who wants to meditate deeply on the Old Testament from a Hebrew-rooted perspective. Christian, Messianic, and Jewish families all meet the text in the same place. We do not take up subjects that divide theologically, such as the Kabbalistic sefirot. We take no political position either.

The core features are all free. Reading the daily passage, following the Torah portion, receiving the Echad Letter, the basic Korean and English translations — all of it is free to use.

"Deeper into the original language", which takes you further in, is the paid option. It includes the deep-mode dictionary, a weekly meditation PDF, and family members. You can look around freely for seven days and then decide. And you can stop whenever you want to stop.

You can meet Echad on all three — iOS, Android, and the web. One account keeps your meditation records in sync across every device in the family.

• iOS — iPhone · iPad · Mac (Apple Silicon)
• Android — phone · tablet
• Web — latest Chrome · Safari · Firefox · Edge

You can read three Korean translations (New Korean Revised Version · Revised New Korean Standard Version · Korean Revised Version), four English ones (KJV · WEB · YLT · BSB), and the Hebrew text itself (WLC). Add Japanese, two German, two Chinese, and Russian and that is fourteen today; the Greek text (NA28) is on its way.

The New Korean Revised Version and the Revised New Korean Standard Version come to us under a formal license from the Korean Bible Society (KBS), and a single purchase in the app keeps them yours. Every other translation is included.

In settings you can choose your primary translation (the one you read most) and your comparison translations (the ones you read alongside it) separately.

The same passage has a different grain depending on how you read it. Echad has three presets ready.

• Focus · 15 / 1.7 / 14 — slightly smaller type, tighter lines. For seminary students, sermon preparation, comparative study.
• Immersion (default) · 16 / 1.85 / 14 — a natural breath. It suits everyday meditation best.
• Meditation · 17 / 2.0 / 18 — larger type, wider lines. For Shabbat, the feasts, and taking a passage slowly to heart.

Change it any time with the small toggle at the top right of the reading screen.

Yes, the five colors carry meanings. They are not enforced — this is the grain we suggest when you first use them.

• Olive · Torah / law (default)
• Green · hope / life
• Blue · meditation / calm
• Red · warning / sin
• Purple · glory / transcendence

Of course. The Torah portion is Echad's heartbeat, but we do not hold it exclusively. Bring M'Cheyne, a one-year plan, or a walk through the Psalms, and that plan lives in the foreground of your home screen while the Torah portion flows quietly in the background.

Yes. Sign in with the same account and your notes, highlights, and reading position sync smoothly across every device. Sync is live, and you can keep reading where there is no internet — it catches up on its own once you reconnect.

Beyond the reading presets, Echad follows the system dynamic type. Raise the text size in your iOS or Android settings and Echad grows with it. VoiceOver and TalkBack are supported.

The Korean text (KoPubWorld Batang), the English text (Source Serif 4), and Hebrew (Frank Ruhl Libre) are all fonts chosen for readability first. The small weight shifts of a serif tire the eye less over a long passage.

Rarely, an unstable connection delays the sync. Try one of these —

• Close the app and open it again on both devices
• Settings → Sync → Refresh now
• If it still does not match, the last passage you read is kept safely on the device. You can go to that page yourself

If the same thing keeps happening, send us a line at [email protected].

Yes — that is Echad's promise. Every passage opens first in Korean and English, and Hebrew words are marked with a dotted underline. Touch one and the dictionary opens quietly beside it. The dictionary does not pronounce a verdict; it shows you the grain of the meaning.

Korean and English transliterations are written together (tzara'at), so you can stay safely inside the text even when you do not know the pronunciation.

The basic dictionary shows a word's core meaning with its Korean and English transliteration. Turn on deep mode and these come in as well —

• How the same word appears in other books across the Torah (concordance)
• Short one-line notes from three to five of the most trusted scholars
• Words grown from the same root (the root of חֶסֶד is ח־ס־ד)
• Spoken pronunciation — the exact sound the vowel points (niqqud) ask for

Yes. In New Testament passages, Greek (in the Gentium Plus font) is handled with the same grain. Words like λόγος (logos) and ἀγάπη (agape) meet you through the same flow — dotted underline, then the dictionary opening.

The most common cause of broken Hebrew is an old font that does not support the vowel points (niqqud). Inside Echad we apply Frank Ruhl Libre, so this does not happen.

If the letters break when you copy a passage into another app (notes, a messenger), the receiving app is missing the font. Recommend "Frank Ruhl Libre" or "Noto Serif Hebrew" to whoever receives it.

Hebrew text is shown in its natural RTL direction. Bidirectional text (BiDi) behaves correctly even when Hebrew sits in the same paragraph as Korean or English.

Echad also forces letter-spacing to zero for Hebrew. Not for the design, but for the honesty of the text. When the space between consonants and vowel points stretches arbitrarily, the meaning of the passage shifts, however slightly.

Turn on "Deeper into the original language" and you can add up to six people in one family. Go to Settings → Family, take the invitation code, and when your family enter it from their own accounts they sit down in the same family place.

Each person's notes are private. What the rest of the family can see is only the sense of "which passage we are staying in together".

The app itself has no age limit, but when a child comes in through family mode a kids grain turns on automatically — larger type, shorter passage units, a dictionary that leans more on transliteration. A parent can choose the passage, or the child can pick a verse themselves from within the week's Torah portion.

Separate material for children — the Torah portion read alongside pictures — arrives in the spring 2027 update.

Yes. A house church place is one grain wider than a family place. Several families can sit before the same passage inside one house church, and at a gathering one person can briefly share their notes with the others. But we do not build administration tools — attendance checks, progress statistics: that is not our path.

Group mode for mid-sized churches of 30 or more arrives in the second quarter of 2027. The alpha and beta run at house-church scale only. If a mid-sized group interests you, tell us in advance at [email protected] — we will let you know first in 2027.

Of course. Nearly half the people using Echad are outside Korea — Los Angeles, New York, Sydney, Hamburg, Tokyo. A time difference inside one family is fine. What matters more is that you sit before the same passage within the same Torah portion week.

The start of Shabbat is calculated automatically for each location.

You can begin in three ways —

• Kakao — what we recommend most in Korea. The quickest way to begin together inside a family
• Apple — the default on iOS
• Google — Android and worldwide

Press "Not now · I will look around" and you can look around without signing in. Notes and sync, though, work only once you have signed in.

It is free during the alpha and beta. After the full launch we plan on ₩4,900 a month or ₩39,000 a year (about two months free). Adding family members costs nothing more; it is included in the same subscription.

Alpha members can use it free for 12 months after the full launch.

Yes, whenever you like. Settings → Subscription → I will pause for now. The basic features stay just as they were after you pause, and the notes and highlights you saved do not disappear. When you begin again you can pick up in the same place.

"I will pause for now" is the wording we use. We do not use a word like "cancel" — a place you have stepped away from for a while is still your place.

Every payment is handled through the Apple App Store, the Google Play Store, or, on the web, Stripe. Echad does not store card details itself.

Account information (email, notes, reading history) is stored encrypted, following the data protection standards of Korea and the EU. We do not sell data to advertising companies.

Settings → Account → I will leave this place. We ask once more, carefully, and then it is deleted. For 30 days we keep the place open so you can begin again with the same email, and after that it is emptied completely.

It is all right to come back. That place stays open to you.

At sunset on Friday the app catches its breath with you. The screen changes gently into Shabbat mode (navy tones and two candles), and every notification pauses on its own. At sunset on Saturday, at the hour three stars appear, it returns to weekday mode.

The hour of sunset is calculated exactly from your location. Seoul's sunset in Seoul, LA's in LA. You can also turn Shabbat mode off or set it to another time zone — Settings → Shabbat · Feasts → Turn on automatically.

We let you know on our own about the main feasts — Rosh Chodesh (the new moon each month), Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot. A gentle notice arrives once on the evening before, and you can look at a preview of the feast reading.

Feast names are written three ways — transliteration, English, and Hebrew. For example: Rosh Chodesh · New Moon · רֹאשׁ חֹדֶשׁ

This is where Echad differs most from other meditation apps. We do not build challenges like "Meditate 7 days in a row!". Day counts, challenge pressure, unfavourable comparison — none of them appear in our notifications.

Because the text that teaches us meditation does not speak that way. The meditation Psalm 1 teaches (haga · הָגָה) is a verb for murmuring quietly and staying close by. Not progress, but staying. The tool does not call you — you decide when to stay with the tool.